The lab-leak theory is one of several endlessly enthralling narratives that have catapulted from the fringes to the mainstream, and pressure is now mounting for a deeper probe of the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
who managed to get deep inside the government debate over the lab theory. “Behind closed doors,” she wrote, “national security and public health experts and officials across a range of departments in the executive branch were locked in high-stakes battles over what could and couldn’t be investigated and made public.… Conflicts of interest, stemming in part from large government grants supporting controversial virology research, hampered the U.S.
The scientific community remains divided, and many acknowledge that there may never be a satisfying conclusion. “It is really hard to disprove—or prove,” said Hanage, the Harvard epidemiologist. “My concern is that I can literally think of no evidence that would convince strong partisans of either lab-leak or natural origins that they were wrong.” Perhaps the right and wrong of it all is beside the point.
The lab-leak theory has enormous political implications, as does Havana Syndrome, even though they are entirely different in nature. As for UFOs, there’s still a certain novelty factor, but even that situation presents a serious national security conundrum. What these stories all share in common is an air of futuristic mystique, the allure of the unknowable, a feeling of perpetual suspense. And that, of course, is what makes them so captivating. As Hanage put it, “Many of these things cannot be resolved one way or the other.”
Another way of putting it is that there are secrets, and there are mysteries. Secrets can be learned, but mysteries may never be solved. “In all three of these cases,” one of my journalist sources said, “we do not know what is going on. No one knows. It’s not like there’s a government person you can get to who has the answer and is hiding it. We usually don’t deal with stories that don’t have answers.
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